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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5h

The U.S. State Department has reissued its Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisory for Haiti, adding terrorism as a listed threat. Americans are warned of widespread kidnappings, violent crime, and civil unrest amid ongoing gang control and government instability.

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Haiti Travel Advisory

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h

Hamas announces that it will not disarm.

What exactly is Trump celebrating tomorrow?

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Defective Cook @novaoulx.bsky.social · 1h

Too bad none of the ways they're trying to justify invoking it have worked yet

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Welker: "Are you seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act?"

Vance: "Well, the president's looking at all of his options right now."

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

Record number of babies born to foreign parents in Japan amid political row over migration

More than 20,000 children were born to non-Japanese couples, accounting for more than 3% of all newborns The number of babies born to foreign parents reached a record high in Japan in 2024, underlining rapid demographic changes that have propelled migration to the heart of the country’s political debate. More than 20,000 children were born to non-Japanese couples, accounting for more than 3% of all newborns, according to the health ministry – in stark contrast to another sharp fall in the number born to Japanese parents. Continue reading...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 5h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2h

Read my words. Ty.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility

The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5h

emergency naked bike ride!

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 2h

so no one was going to tell me that mountain lions and cougars are the same animal? as are pumas? and panthers?????????

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2h

"i made a x" "new x or old thing?" meme from donnie darko

donnie darko: i made a new VEGETABLE

mother: new vegetable or brassica oleracea?

donnie: rassica oleracea again

(inset with a graphic showing cabbage, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, kale, broccoli and cauliflower are all brassica oleracea)

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2h

Military isn’t getting paid, but ICE Air contractors still are.

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 2h

🧵🧊✈️ ICE AIR – MON 13 OCT 2025

🌍 AFRICA: An Omni 767 (tail: N207AX) departs Baltimore on an ICE mission to Ghana 👀

Follow this thread for updates ⤵️

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 5h

FUN FACT:

Our military is not being paid,

but the ICE gremlins are.

Make that make sense.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 2h

Welp, went grocery shopping 😭

a baby wearing a hat looks out a window

ALT: a baby wearing a hat looks out a window

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 5h

The “No Kings” protest - October 18th. | Photos by jackdarylphotography / Projections by Silence Dogood

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

In late 2020, far right violence was ramping up here in Oregon in tandem with the "stop the steal" nonsense. David Medina, the OR "journalist" who last week embedded w/ Benny Johnson & Kristi Noem, participated in this Dec 21, 2020 invasion of the *Oregon* Capitol Building. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Dec 23

My perceptions of J6 were shaped by living in Salem, Oregon. On December 21, 2020 an angry mob, organized (in hindsight) by local GOP activists, forced their way into the State Capitol, smashing a door. On January 1 those same groups engaged in pitched battle on Salem's streets AGAINST THE POLICE.

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · Dec 23

Enrique Tarrio wasn’t at J6 because he’d been arrested for a crime committed a month or two earlier. The “stand back and stand by” era featured DC civilians getting beaten up.

I think we simply have a different understanding of the relationship between Trump and the shock troops.

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Myra Åhbeck Öhrman @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se · 20h

I feel like maybe the problem wasn't ChatGPT for once, Rich.

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 5h

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 2h

"Ta-Nehisi Coates, in Palestine, May 2023, observes black Israeli soldiers "lording their power over Palestinians, many of whom would, in America, have been seen as 'white'. This reminds him "of something [he has] long known: that race is a species of power and nothing else."

(h/t Jeremy Bushnell)

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2h

This really fucking sucks!!! I’m not even paid to be here by an outlet, so doing this is just fucking me personally!

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Defective Cook @novaoulx.bsky.social · 2h

*radio chatter* COLONEL FUZZBUTT REQUIRES ASSISTANCE. FROG AND TOAD, 87TH BATTALION, MOVE IN. REPTAR AND TWILIGHT SPARKLE, YOU HAVE THEIR LEFT FLANK. GENERAL COOKIE MONSTER OF THE 54TH JUST ARRIVED, MOVE IN!

Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 3h

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 3h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4h

Anemic girlie dinner:

Air fried jumbo shrimp, black-brown rice blend, steamed asparagus (off-camera cantaloupe and watermelon )

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